I am sitting down to enjoy a cappuccino in what may be the world’s oldest coffee shop. With its magnificent, vaulted ceiling, The Undercroft Café inside the grounds of Windsor Castle is in a cellar built by Edward III around 1350, just as the Black Death, which had killed half the population, was abating. It’s a beautiful building, and the chocolate powder on top of the coffee is in the form of a royal crown.
As I sip away, being careful not to disturb the
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